....it's about all the other "stuff" that I've been doing.
Weebly's stats claim that this blog gets 600-700 hits per week. Maybe most of them are bots or webcrawlers, but I have to presume there are some Real Human Beings reading this thing. From reading these blog posts, those RHBs might be led to believe that I am always flipping, and that I am always rocking it.
Nope. Not true. I have always tried to be honest about the actual performance and attitude of my students. In my previous post of Feb 15, I told you that the average grade on a major assessment was 84 (B). Granted, that was a subjectively graded open-response task, but still it demonstrates that we do not have 100% achievement here.
Perhaps I have not been sufficiently honest and transparent about other aspects of my life. Sorry, but this won't be a gossipy/melodramatic post: my marriage is fine, I still have a job, no trip to rehab, etc.... Still, I feel like I owe the RHBs a little more description about the other balls that I'm juggling in the air this year.
Last week was a school vacation week for Massachusetts and much of the northeast U.S. We took our annual family trip to DisneyWorld from Tues the 19th to Mon the 26th. I did not completely unplug (the Twitter and GMail apps remained on my phone this year), but it is the only full week of the calendar year when I do absolutely zero unit/lesson planning. Yeah, that's right: I get more done during the summer vacation weeks because I have no chill whatsoever. Well, just a little bit. In February. :) The burst of vitamin D is really helpful, and it gives us something to look forward to during the darkest winter days.
What else is going on in my life between blog posts??
Weebly's stats claim that this blog gets 600-700 hits per week. Maybe most of them are bots or webcrawlers, but I have to presume there are some Real Human Beings reading this thing. From reading these blog posts, those RHBs might be led to believe that I am always flipping, and that I am always rocking it.
Nope. Not true. I have always tried to be honest about the actual performance and attitude of my students. In my previous post of Feb 15, I told you that the average grade on a major assessment was 84 (B). Granted, that was a subjectively graded open-response task, but still it demonstrates that we do not have 100% achievement here.
Perhaps I have not been sufficiently honest and transparent about other aspects of my life. Sorry, but this won't be a gossipy/melodramatic post: my marriage is fine, I still have a job, no trip to rehab, etc.... Still, I feel like I owe the RHBs a little more description about the other balls that I'm juggling in the air this year.
Last week was a school vacation week for Massachusetts and much of the northeast U.S. We took our annual family trip to DisneyWorld from Tues the 19th to Mon the 26th. I did not completely unplug (the Twitter and GMail apps remained on my phone this year), but it is the only full week of the calendar year when I do absolutely zero unit/lesson planning. Yeah, that's right: I get more done during the summer vacation weeks because I have no chill whatsoever. Well, just a little bit. In February. :) The burst of vitamin D is really helpful, and it gives us something to look forward to during the darkest winter days.
What else is going on in my life between blog posts??
- planning a flipped conference in June, which is way more work than I expected BUT also rewarding in terms of the people I have already met --- doors open in just under 4 months!
- finished a unit on the executive & legislative branches...
- ...starting a brand-new unit on Action Civics that has me alternately excited & terrified, because it means giving power to each class of students to choose a community issue and apply their civic knowledge to seek solutions
- continued work with the SSChat Network....
- ....and new membership in the iCivics Educator Network
- my youngest child signing up for courses for 9th grade next year ..... ACK! Am I that old?! Is she???
- Related realization: we will only have 2 more of those February vacations in Florida, because in 2022 my son will be at college!! [heart thumps to the floor]
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